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Words, Words, Words : Houghmagandie, Knockers, Trolleys & Others
Diarmaid O. Muirithe
Paperback - $42.95
Folk-Etymology : A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy
A. Smythe Palmer
Paperback - $87.95
This 1882 work remains unmatched and irreplaceable as an alphabetically arranged dictionary of corrupted or perverted words. The work contains thousands of entries and covers not only English but foreign words and proper names as well as certain spec ...
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds : Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
Michael Quinion
Paperback - $20.95
The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological "folk tales." From the bawdy to the sublime, Quinion's explanations ...
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds : Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
Michael Quinion
Hardcover - $30.95
The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological "folk tales." The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evol ...
Gallimaufry : A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary
Michael Quinion
Hardcover - $37.95
When did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock?
Language is always changing, and in Gallimaufry: A Hodge-Podge of Words Vanishing from Our Vocabulary Michael Quinion has gathe ...
Les Rhgles Du Genre Des Noms Au Masculin Et Au Fiminin : Pourquoi Le Bras Est Au Masculin Tandis Que La Jambe Est Au Fiminin, Et Autres Mysthres de La
Saul H. Rosenthal
Paperback - $20.95
Si le franais est votre langue maternelle, vraisemblablement vous ne vous tes jamais demand pourquoi le mot bras appartient au genre masculin, alors que jambe est au fminin? Vous avez appris ces mots depuis l'enfance avec leurs genres compris, et vou ...
The New Joys of Yiddish : Completely Updated
Leo Calvin Rosten
Paperback - $30.95
Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of ...
